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Researcher
Isabelle Devos
- Keywords:living standards, inequality, Historical demography, history of health
- Disciplines:Socio-economic history, Sociology of life course, family and health not elsewhere classified, Regional and urban history, Modern and contemporary history, Early modern history, Population trends and policies, Social epidemiology, Mortality and health
Affiliations
- Department of History (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2010 → Today - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2008 → 31 Dec 2009 - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2008 → 31 Dec 2009 - Department of Early modern history (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1996 → 31 Dec 2009
Projects
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- S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban Inequalities at Death in the Port City of Antwerp, 1820-1939.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Cofunding core facility - Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical ResearchFrom1 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025)From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO EOS
- Historical DemographyFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO scientific research network
- EPIBEL: EPidemics and Inequalities in BELgium from the Plague to COVID-19: what can we learn from societal resilienceFrom15 Dec 2020 → TodayFunding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- LOKSTAT +. Database of local statistics in Belgium (1960-1990).From1 Dec 2020 → 30 Nov 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Who died from cancer? A history of victims of malignant tumors in Belgium, 1850-1950From1 Oct 2017 → TodayFunding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- QUETELET CENTER FOR QUANTITATIVE HISTORICAL RESEARCH (QUETELET-BE)From1 Feb 2017 → 30 Nov 2022Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- The Lost Stork? Interpretations and Experiences of Childlessness in 18th- and 19thcentury Belgium.From1 Oct 2015 → 18 Apr 2017Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- HISSTER (STAGE 2). Development of a database of 19th and 20th century Belgian mortality statistics available at the local levelFrom1 Jun 2015 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
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- Doodsoorzaken in Amsterdam en Antwerpen : hoe burgerwetenschap de stadsgeschiedenis voortstuwt(2023)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Sarah Heynssens, Angélique Janssens
Pages: 118 - 132 - ‘Zelfde straat, 130 jaar later’ : een educatieve oefening historische demografie in twee Gentse buurten(2020)
Authors: Laura Debyser, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 129 - 141 - 1754 : la lutte contre la malaria en Flandre : une heureuse méprise(2020)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Marnix Beyen, Marc Boone, Bruno De Wever
Pages: 265 - 271 - Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus : regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810(2020)Series: Datini Studies in Economic History
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Thijs Lambrecht, Anne Winter, Giampiero Nigro
Pages: 327 - 350 - Trend en toeval : inleiding tot de kwantitatieve methoden voor historici(2019)
Authors: Bruno Blondé, Isabelle Devos, Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch
Number of pages: 1 - 1754 : de strijd tegen malaria in Vlaanderen : een gelukkig misverstand(2018)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Marnix Beyen, Marc Boone, Bruno De Wever, Leen Huet, Brigitte Meijns, Harold Polis, Marc Reynebeau, Eric Vanhaute, Guy Vanthemsche, et al.
Pages: 264 - 269 - Introduction(2017)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Angélique Janssens
Pages: 5 - 24 - Re-considering the burden of disease in the Low Countries in past centuries : special issue of Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History/Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis(2017)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Angélique Janssens
- Tussen familie en instelling? Een analyse van de huishoudtrajecten van doven in Oost-Vlaanderen, 1750-1950(2017)
Authors: Sofie De Veirman, Isabelle Devos
Pages: 799 - 832 - The lure of the city: comparative perspectives on singles in towns in the Low Countries, 1600-1940(2016)
Authors: Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt, Julie De Groot